Maroon Consciousness Magazine ready for download
Maroon Consciousness Magazine is created to provide the African Diaspora with constructive news about itself and resources on the growing Maroon Consciousness Movement. Maroon Consciousness Magazine is available as a PDF file: Maroon Consciousness Magazine Vol 2 at: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a29a01b0627f5211c036b985f/files/Maroon_Consciousness_Magazine_Vol_2.pdf If…
Caribbean Philosophical Association announces the 2015 recipients of its awards
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2015 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and the new awards for beginning scholars and graduate students: The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award Grace Lee…
Lotteries and public policy in United States and Commonwealth Caribbean Law: scrutinizing the success of lotteries as a voluntary and ‘painless’ tax
By Stephen J. Leacock Barry University – Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2013 Abstract: This article explores the remarkable success of lotteries as a voluntary and “painless” tax in…
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New Year’s Day triplets for Cayman family Caymanians, Mark and Sheena Thompson, have three additions to their family when triplets were born, Alexa, Jenna and Emma. The babies weighed in at only 3lbs. 12ozs, 3lbs. 7ozs, and 3lbs 2ozs, respectively…
30 Books that changed the course of history
By Megan Willett From Business Insider Every reader knows that a book can change your life. But what about the lives of an entire generation? Can a book change the future? Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at…
Things that matter: Our history, culture and the museum journal
By Sir Henry Fraser From Barbados Advocate “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” (C.L.R.James, famous Trinidadian intellectual and writer) In Beyond a boundary, that great book by C.L.R. James, which every West Indian should read, his…
New Book: Cuba Is a State of Mind
From blueoceanpublications.com In writing on travel to Cuba, the Spiritual Traveler decides to give a voice to the Cuban Silent Majority. The Silent Majority in Cuba are: Voices unheard in books about Cuba We hear about those who leave, but…
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Man killed and second hurt in Sheffield [UK] as gunman fires at car From BBC Emergency workers at the scene of the double shooting on Derek Dooley Way, Sheffield Derek Dooley Way in Sheffield was cordoned off to allow investigations…
Local Author’s Writing Workshop & Book Fair huge success
On Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December, 2014, the Cayman Islands Public Library Service hosted the local author’s writing workshops and book fair run by CayWriters. CayWriters is an organisation whose vision is to promote writers in the Cayman Islands….
Interview: Alexander McCall Smith, author of No. 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency series
By Gigi Lehman special to The Miami Herald In a letter to her niece about novel writing, Jane Austen once remarked: “You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of…





